ALIEN: Fallout - RPG Review

Hey Seth, long time fan, first time commenter. I think you would love the FIST (Freelance Infantry Strike Team) ttrpg. It seems like it would be right up your alley. If you do pick it up, I hope you have a lot of fun with it. My table loves it so far

Aussie here, love the content but it was bothering me slightly and I wanted to let you know it’s pronounced Cro-Nulla and it’s a suburb of Sydney, NSW. 😊

maybe you can put short adventures in the back of your future books, just an idea

Excellent show as always.

I keep hearing SS Cromulent haha! Great video! I also love Jack's outfit 👌

Just wanted to say thanks for steering me over to How We Roll. Have really enjoyed their previous Alien and the In Darkness We Wait games.

Noooo Seth! Not the H8R airsoft revolver. It's just so distasteful as a piece.

Dang it. This is the first time I have to stop watching your video for spoilers. I just ordered the paperback. I could do ebook, but I like paperbacks. Yeah, I'm a monster I guess.

I would have pronounced Cronulla as Cro-Nulla - like the Sydney suburb and Football team. YMMV

Seth, I'm starting to think John Hook has a grudge against you

I appreciate Jack’s trigger discipline with that hand cannon. Scott Brown, bleeper-bleepers, would be proud! :)

Seth single handedly doubles their book sales.

I hate the "black goo" concept started by the latest films. Seriously, you dumbed down the mystique of this organism with prometheus and covenant. I still detest those films.

I had no idea the books had adventures in them!

I'd like a senario for the cold forge novel, it's my favorite by far

So, including RPG adventures in short story/books is an idea that I always thought should exist, and I had no idea that it did. As you observed, this is horribly marketed because it's the kind of thing that I would love but I had no idea it was even in existence.

It sucks that they used stuff from prometheus in the Aliens game, the prometheus movies were terrible and they absolutely ruined the Aliens franchise.

I love how the MIG looks like a blenderized version of a MIG-15/17/19.

You lied! The stories in your books are adventures

Hey Seth, I was looking to pick up one of your books and I was wondering if it helps you out more if I buy the physical book or the audiobook. Thanks for all you do, man!

Stop getting me to buy so much RPG!!!!!!!!!!!!! I got CoC and Traveler and Cyberpunk cause of you

I've been running Alien RPG for about 6 months or so and I'm currently listening to Colony War on Audible, yet this is the first time hearing about this scenario! 😢

Great!

The U-P-P
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Pinnacle Entertainment Group did similar with their Deadlands setting, providing Dime Novels that included an adventure. Sort of a “you read the story, now see how your players go through it!” sort of thing.

That final idea about the captain at the end is amazing!

Sweet review 🙂 curious have you ever heard of Hostile? It's a setting and rules thing based off cepheus engine the guy who made it worked on the Alien RPG because his setting was so good and heavily inspired by alien, blade runner, event horizon etc... they asked him to work on it, honestly I think it is much better overall plus you csn run a straight up alien campaign with no issue lots of options for everything really. Also has lots of supplements to add extra things or go into more details etc.. anyway just letting people know, I personally love it

Nice 👍.

Hey Seth, happy 2024! Was gone for an yr, JohnD here, new connection, etc. Glad you still here, man.

I wanted to listen to the podcast of this scenario you mention but I can't for the life of me find it.

Could you review the Pendragon ROG by Chaosium?

Wait, Pip Ballentine wrote an Alien novel? Why did I not know about this?

Okay, adding this after watching the entire review: this adventure feels a lot like Hope's Last Day from the core book - most of the action has already happened (or, will also happen, in the case of HLD), and the PCs can't really change that. But at the same time, it makes the world feel more real. As much as the original movies focused on Ripley (let's not talk about Prometheus or Covenant), there's nothing to say that the various Powers That Be wouldn't want to look into the xenomorphs for their own purposes.

If you get the chance to check it out, Destroyer of Worlds is one of the best adventure modules I've ran in over 40+ years of gaming.

Excellent episode. I'm a huge Alien fan ever since the RPG came out. Free League did a great job with that IP.
I wasn't aware of the novels with adventures in them. Thanks for the enlightenment.
I'm surprised Audible didn't supply a pdf of the adventure. I've had a few books in the past that did. It was a pain to find the downloads but they were buried in my account area of their site.

Seth - after watching this video, I ordered and just received the paperback version of Alien: Colony War with the adventure included in the back. BTW, you did a great review of the adventure module!! Thanks for the heads up!

This looks like a well paced, action packed adventure. Definitely going to bring this to the table, and may even adopt it for my Star Wars campaign.

lol I’ve have them all in audio had no idea but how the books are written them being rpg characters make a lot of sense

I’ve had an idea for an adventure where the PCs show up after a major battle for a while now, it’s nice to see I’m not the only one who thinks that’s an interesting idea.

Man, I love this stuff. I've never been able to play a real DnD game, but you and Maple Table cover a lot of the stuff. Aliens? Awesome! Wish more folks would do Starfinder. :) Stay well and keep being excellent, Seth!

Love your stuff. Will you do reviews for Destroyer of Worlds and Heart of Darkness?

I really dont like this game, or free league for that matter. The books are over priced for what is in them. I mean, with all the dead spece on every page, the rules could fit in a book of 50 pages. Also they heave out important things, lile deck plans. The book says the players ship is a campaign setting and almost a character; but no deck plans makes it frustrating for my self. The rules also are so simplistic i just want to beat my head on a spiked wall. Anyway, no shocker they failed to put in a bad colony deck plan.

Great stuff Seth!! I love your character "jack"!

Just finished listening the playthrough of this adventure on the How We Roll Podcast. It's surprising how little you've explored and learned. Still, it was very entertaining to listen to your playthrough.

Yeah, they really should have put somewhere, maybe on the back cover that there's an adventure inside.

I interacted with Dallas way back in my days of an alien RPG map maker. Glad to her them being given credit

New Albion, like The Dolls of New Albion?